We often get asked why we can create Full Content Managed SEO friendly websites for a fraction of what our competitors can, the answer isn’t that we do a bad job nor is it that we dont’ know what we are doing, quite the opposite really, we have used a CMS called WORDPRESS for over 7 years now, from when it first started as a blogging CMS base and watched it grow to an amazing open source CMS that we use on ALL of our websites, the client ALWAYS gets a custom website, always designed to their brief, always designed to fit their budget and always designed from the ground up, but the core engine behind it is a free CMS tested and bug checked by thousands of users and testers over many a year, do you get this from your current design team, i thought not.
Its a tough decision for a design & development to use a Free “open Source” CMS as there is a lot to take into consideration when choosing it for a client, is it future proof, is it stable, is their support, and more important, is it right for the clients project.
The answer on 99% of the projects we undertake is yes, Wordpress is stable, is secure is 99.9% bug free ( trust me that’s 99.9% better then most custom CMS’s i have worked with)
So before we even start to quote for a project, we can usually guarantee that we will be in the right ball park with prices, if not under budget.
Nowadays the level of development of systems like Wordpress is so advanced to allow simple modifications of the system without touching the core of the platform to be adapted under any needs thus keeping lower costs, less time consumption, security levels and better future development of features and extra needs. That’s exactly why high-level clients use it for their wesbites:
The Prime Minister of United Kingdom: http://www.number10.gov.uk/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html
FORD: http://www.thefordstory.com/
Golf Royalty: http://golf-royalty.com/
These and many more examples of Wordpress customization to fit ones needs can be shown. As follows are the reasons why Wordpress is a good system:
1) Wordpress will never outdate.
In fact, Wordpress is a system used by millions around the globe, allowing for the best and largest “bug-checking” team in the world, and once glitches in the system are revealed Wordpress comes up with an immediate upgrade. And even if it is not about bugs, even if it is about making the system better there will always be new updates therefore the system will never outdate.
2) Wordpress helps you save time and money
Instead of spending time on waiting until a good, bugless and expensive custom system is developed, it takes considerably less time and resources for developers to concentrate on creating features needed by the client to be installed into Wordpress and work on the design of the front end. Also, learning to use Wordpress is much easier as there is plenty of documentation available on the Internet, which is much easier than having someone explain “how the new super advanced custom CMS works”.
3) Wordpress is quicker and more optimized
Wordpress is known to be one of the best DB driven systems available at the moment, thus being one of the quickest Open Source platforms on the internet. Moreover it has the ability of optimizing the database so as not to lose data and work faster under heavy traffic.
4) Wordpress is the best for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
This is a fact, Wordpress driven sites get indexed by Search Engines much faster and better than custom system driven sites do, due to the cleanliness of the code and the features it has.
5) Anyone can use Wordpress
At any point in time should the client decide to update his site with new features, new design etc it will be enough to hire a Wordpress developer and not look for someone to understand someone else’s code.
So what is the conclusion: Pretty simple really, if you NEED A CMS WEBSITE that you have full control over that you can manage and you don’t have any running costs with a design/web company and you dont have 5-10k to spend on a custom content management system they you really should be using WORDPRESS developers like us.